From c_schonberger@yahoo.com Mon Sep 07 00:06:21 2009
Subject:Re: Ventilator + EMU B3 / leslie challenged clonewheels


--- On Mon, 9/7/09, electrosim2001 wrote:
>From Neo Instruments' web-site.... .... Using an on-line translator and a bit of my own >deduction where the translated text kind of gives you the idea of its meaning but sounds >odd.......( Any-one able to improve on this? )
 
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O.K. I am German. Since I've got nothing to do right now ;-) I'll translate it. Please keep in mind that the spirit of a language cannot be translated. Guido uses a very contemporary and rather snappy/cool approach, which is absolutely in tune with the times, and can be found in German pop/rock music publications in the exact same form. The introduction is rarther a metaphor - to make the point.
 
Translation:
 
Is it really the size that matters?
[the double entendre, typical in English, is somehow less evident in German since this isn't a standard phrase as "does size really matter?]
 
You all know this scenario: At home you have that fat Hammond with one. perhaps two Leslies beside it and you are just simply happy with your sound. But as you make your way from one musical riff to another [playing the organ}, you realize: playing exactly that sound
on stage - that would be IT. But the weight of these pieces of antique music furnmiture makes any thought of a permanent presence on stage impossible. You are basically hapy with your digital Hammond clone, but the Leslie effect sounds rather weak. [he uses the word schlap, which means: weak, exhausted, lame, but not offensice, it's rather funny in German]
 
Now what to do?
 
Guido Kirsch, developer of the Ventilator, was also dissatisfied with this situation. That's why he tried out just about every rotor effect digital, analog or mechanical this of course excludes real full leslies with horn and bass rotor] available on the market - the dissatiffaction became even greater. He even combined several units, fine-tweaked parameters, added EQ either before or after [eingeschleift, refers to using an effects loop. but I'd translate it as "added", since the word is used to sound cool, not to describe the exact signal path] - and the result was already not that bad - but the desire remained: Someone should bring the topic "Leslie simulation" to the point [= German slang for: someone should come up with the definitive Leslie sim,]. At this moment the idea was born to build the Ventilator.
 
A lot helps a lot [this is a word play: instead of saying less is more, he says: more is more]
 
To meet even high demands, a whole new rotor effect coincept has been programmed [created would sound better in Enmglish, but I try to translate as literally as possible and comment in parenthesis], which is unique in complexity. The computing power that is used here [he uses the word "verbraten", which is slang for "used"], others run a complete organ including the Leslie effect! [yes, you got the meaning!]. No efford has been avoided to get as near the original as technicall possible in virtual any way [the last is my best try to translate: "irgendwie" = whatsoever, in any way imaginable, etc.]
An original Leslie 122 has been measured, calculated, analyzed, compared and following this the Ventilator algorythm has been refined as much as necessary until a satisfactory result has been obtained. In two years of development a rotor simulation has been created, which puts everything existing into the shadow [= slang for: puts everything else to shame, make s everything else look way inferior, etc.]. Even the creator was surprised by the result!
 
Ventilator for everyone
 
In order for guitarists to benefit from the effect as well, the unit also contains a true bybass relay-switch, controllable input sensitivity, and the ability to switch off the speaker simulation.
 
It doesn't get better than this
 
The Neo Instruments Ventilator is not just another Leslie simulator on the market, but a high end product, leaving nothing to desire. The Ventilator is the ultimative [or definitive, what ever sounds better in English] rotor simulator.
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Please keep in mind that "detals" and "specs" reveal more information. The above is the the text that just sells the unit. Hence the snappy, confident phrasing.
 
Hope this helps,
Christian
 



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